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GM satisfied with draft results

After thousands of hours in arenas and numerous discussions during the season about players and their potential, Soo Greyhounds representatives gathered Saturday morning to try to get what they were looking for out of the 2014 OHL Priority Selections.

The Hounds selected 16 players during the annual day-long draft that was held online: 10 forwards, four defencemen and two goalies.

Although teams seldom, if ever, acquire all the players they are looking for on Draft Day, Hounds GM Kyle Dubas is “really, really happy with how things” went.

“You can't always get what you want,” he said. “You try to work hard and build your list and take the draft as it comes to you. You don't try to reach for guys, you take the best players that are available to you.”

Some of those players may end up being those who are selected in the earliest rounds of the 15-round selection process.

After drafting Anthony Salinitri, a Windsor centre, with their first pick in the first round (17th overall) Saturday morning, Dubas and company had two picks in the second round.

They opted for Boris Katchouk (33rd overall) from Waterloo, and Joseph Raaymakers (37th overall), a goalie from Chatham, Ont.

Dubas described Katchouk, a 6-foot, 169-pound left winger, as “extremely competitive.”

“He can score ... He's similar to Michael Bunting. Obviously he's very skilled but he's hungry to score, hungry to establish his presence on the ice,” he said.